Roman Empire
The Roman empire spanned throughout Europe and Northern Africa. It stood from 44 BC to 286 AD. The Roman empire witnessed the time of the gladiator as well as a significant shift in religious views.
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Rome is considered by many to be a southern city, however on the map it is right in the middle of the Italian peninsula, so it...
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Vespasian could easily afford to build the Colosseum and his other structures due to the loot brought back to Rome from the...
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earthquakes
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they beated her up and raped her daughters
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most of Italy
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The Roman Empire was plagued by several problems. One of them was no stable line of succession. When one emperor died, often the...
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Caesars wife had a dream before he went to the senate that he was stabbed to death with daggers screaming in pain. she tried to...
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Byzantium.
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If you mean a military officer, he can be called either a centurion, a tribune, or a legate.
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The cause of Sulla's death is mixed. Some ancient writers say he had a hemorrhage due to a fit of temper when something didn't go...
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Here are 3 things Marcus Aurelius accomplished: At age twelve he become a follower of the stoic philosopher Zeno. As a stoic,...
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Actually, the Romans did. They made aquaducts and a means to carry water away plus they had a form of bathroom.
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No. Nero is best remembered for the great fire of Rome and his prosecution of the Christians for arson.
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Carthage was located on the Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia, Africa. It was destroyed by the Romans but the ruins are still there.
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They granted the Roman people freedom of religion.
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Rome was established 15 miles inland, off the coast of the Tyrrhenian sea, where it remains today as the capital of Italy.
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There are far too many Latin words that start with B to list. Go to your public library and look at a Latin dictionary under B....
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No. Spartans were citizens of the Greek city-state, Sparta.
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Well, in 55BC 4 generals were fighting the British. The Capital City Rome continued its life (Eating, sleeping, Working... etc).
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The Judeo-Christians had individual responsibilities because they worshiped one God. The Romans and Greeks on the other hand...
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There were two types, civil and military. The civil officers were the elected officials who tended to various duties. The...
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The Romans did nothing to the Christians for their beliefs. They persecuted them for crimes against the state. For example, Nero...
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The siege tower was one of the main assault engines of the ancient world. It enabled the men to attack a city's walls in relative...
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They adapted the Etruscan numeral system which today we call Roman numerals.
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Charlemagne increased the size of the Frankish kingdom to include most of the area of present France, Belgium, the Netherlands,...
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Names of three Roman roads are the Va Appia, the Via Flaminia and of course the Via Sacra.
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The First Punic War consisted of the combatants Rome and Carthage .
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Augustus himself did not create any imperial cult. The worship of Julius Caesar had alredy been established before he took office...
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Pindarus earns his freedom from Cassius by murdering him at his own request.
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In 27 BC. His reign ended in AD. 14.
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The oil of the ancient Romans and their world was olive oil. The Romans produced great quantities in Italy itself and also...
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In the long term, Caesar's death did help Rome, but in the immediate aftermath, Rome was plunged into chaos and eventually...
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Boudicca did lead one of the biggest armies and worked very well with them.
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Generally the farm slaves were sold along with the farm, but if an owner only had one or two that he no longer needed, he would...
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Romulus and Aeneas were the two mythical founders of Rome.
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At first hours after the death everybody was in panic.Killers were struck by the fact they won't be praised as liberators since...
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The governors of the provinces were usually ex-counsuls. There were times when men of lower rank were appointed, but they all had...
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AnswerKing Herod the Great was an Idumean. Idumea was located just to the south of Judea.
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The Roman spa or baths, included just about everything except spaghetti. (If it had been invented in Roman times, spaghetti would...
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Emperors of Rome where considered to be embodiments of Jupiter on Earth.
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Nero was not as bad as some writers make him. He was an innovator and had practical and common sense ideas for the improvement of...
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The emperor was always designated as the "first citizen".
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As far as I know the only thing of significance that happened in 100 BC was that Julius Caesar was born.
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After all of the other conspirators.
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Augustus had no biological son. He adopted his two young grandsons but they both died prematurely. He then adopted Tiberius, his...
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The Colosseum and a modern stadium would be about equal. The seating capacity of the Colosseum is variously given as from 50,000...
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The plume was made of dyed horse hair. Hair was the preferred material because it lasted longer. The red was to intimidate the...
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The tenth month of the Roman calendar was October, the same as ours. This name, even tough it connotes eight (octo) was kept...
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The designation "First Citizen" was what Augustus called himself in order to keep from being considered a king. All other...
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Any marketplace was called a forum. The main one in the city of Rome was called the Forum Romanum and although it started out as...
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The standard attire for a Roman citizen was the tunic and toga. Non-citizens would wear the tunic and perhaps a cloak of one of...
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they hated it very much and got to have food whenever they wanted and take breakd whenever they wanted it
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The Roman Emperor Claudius II Gothicus needed to raise an army and he could not draft married men. To solve the problem he...
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He hated love.Valentine was a priest who was scheduled for execution. He supposedly fell in love with a girl who would visit him....
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Cassius
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chariots were used for racing and sometimes in battle
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The purpose of the bread and circuses policy was to keep the population fed and entertained, so as to avoid civil unrest.
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No, Spartacus was not a Roman Emperor.Spartacus was a Thracian, possibly a soldier who was either captured by a Roman Legion or...
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Jesus was making miricals happen. The Romans belived that someone who could make a blind man see could destory a mighty empire,...
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A dictator was a person in supreme authority under the republic. In other words it was a republican form of office. A dictator...
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Antony was quite a "character" marrriagewise. He married Octavia in 40 BC,( the same year that Cleopatra gave birth to their...
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An absolute ruler in the empire under the republic form of government was a dictator. Under the principate the "emperor"was the...
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Greece would have had a much harder time with unifying their area because each city had its own government and pretty much did...
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Gaius Julius Caesar took over Gaul (what is now France) during the Gallic wars of 58-51 B.C.If you want you can read about it in...
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A quaestor in the Roman army could loosely be called an assistant to the legate of the legion. He wore the same uniform as the...
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They were completed in 449 BC and from then on used. The first Roman Emperor, not king since it was an Empire, was Augustus in...
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The Pantheon is the most famous of the Roman temples. This is due to its architecture and its excellent state of preservation.
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The Roman Republic was founded
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No. The term "Empire" only applies to Rome between the periods 44BC - 1453 AD. It was, however, a republic, for 500 years before...
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The eastern and western Roman empires were the same. They were the Roman empire. "Eastern" and "Western" are simply historical...
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Julius Caesar was apart of the "first triumvirate" made up of three men: Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus. Caesar tried to deify...
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Sometimes. Some of the gladiatorial schools were close to the main arena when they would fight. However it was not unknown for...
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Marcus Aurelius
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Roman females were basically stuck with the same type of housework that present day females are stuck with. However, in ancient...
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Janus: two-faced, he is also the god of endings.
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Marc Antony was a man who liked fun and games. He would rather party than tend to business. Excessive drinking was one of his...
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Pompeii was a Roman town, ruled by Rome, with a local consul of elected officials at the time of the eruption.
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The first major Roman road was/is the Via Appia or Appian Way and it ran from Rome to Brundisium. It was constructed in 312 BC.
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The western empire fell in 476 and the eastern fell in 1453. That means the eastern part continued for 977 years after the fall...
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No. The ancient Romans often ate chickens but they did not eat spicy foods.
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By Divine right.
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Caesar Augustus ruled from 30 BC to 14 AD.
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The Roman temple to all the gods is called the Pantheon.
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Coriolanus was fighting against the Volscians.
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once upon there was a jabba staaba he had merry fun all day log stabbing people the end
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The Roman goddess Juno, AKA Hera, was almost as beautiful as Aphrodite. She had curly brown hair.
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